by Andrew Moore | Apr 21, 2017 | Cloud, MySQL, Security
This quick post demonstrates using Percona Server for MySQL in Docker Swarm with some new authentication provisioning practices. Some small changes to the startup script for the Percona-Server container image allows us to specify a file that contains password values...
by Tomislav Plavcic | Mar 3, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In this blog post, we’ll talk about the MongoDB audit log. Percona’s development team has always invested in the open-source community a priority – especially for...
by David Busby | Feb 27, 2017 | MySQL, Security
This blog post examines the recent MySQL® ransomware attacks, and what open source database security best practices could have prevented them. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that there has been an uptick in ransomware for MongoDB and...
by Dave Avery | Feb 22, 2017 | MySQL, Security, Webinars
Please join Sveta Smirnova, Percona’s Principal Technical Services Engineer, as she presents Troubleshooting MySQL Access Privileges Issues on February 23, 2017 at 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm EST (UTC-8). Do you have registered users who can’t connect to the MySQL...
by David Murphy | Jan 5, 2017 | MongoDB, Security
In this blog post, we’ll look at some of the concerns recently seen around MongoDB ransomware and security issues. Security blogs and magazines have recently been aflutter with the news that a hacker is stealing data from MongoDB instantiations and demanding...
by Adamo Tonete | Dec 19, 2016 | MongoDB
In this blog post we’ll look at how to go about securing MongoDB instances. Authentication is one of the most important features of a database, and MongoDB supports it in different ways. Although it allows you to work without any authentication, the best...
by Kenny Gryp | Sep 12, 2016 | MySQL, Security
In this blog post, I will discuss the CVE-2016-6662 vulnerability, how to tell if it affects you, and how to prevent the vulnerability from affecting you if you have an older version of MySQL. I’ll also list which MySQL versions include the vulnerability fixes....
by Dave Avery | Sep 12, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Live
Welcome to another Percona Live Europe featured talk with Percona Live Europe 2016: Amsterdam speakers! In this series of blogs, we’ll highlight some of the speakers that will be at this year’s conference. We’ll also discuss the technologies and outlooks of the...
by Dave Avery | Aug 30, 2016 | MongoDB, Security, Webinars
Please join David Murphy as he presents a webinar Thursday, September 1 at 10 am PDT (UTC-7) on MongoDB Security: A Practical Approach. (Date changed*) This webinar will discuss the many features and options available in the MongoDB community to help secure your...
by Dave Avery | Aug 2, 2016 | MySQL, Security
Take Percona’s database security downtime poll. As Peter Zaitsev mentioned recently in his blog post on database support, the data breach costs can hit both your business reputation and your bottom line. Costs vary depending on the company size and market,...
by Pablo Padua | Feb 4, 2016 | Security
password_expired feature which allows to set a user’s password as expired. This has been added to the mysql.user table and its default value it’s “N.” You can change it to “Y” using the ALTER USER statement. Here’s an quick example on how...
by David Busby | Jan 14, 2016 | MySQL, Security
Earlier today advisories were sent out regarding OpenSSH versions 5.4 through 7.1., informing users about a security bug in the software. In essence, the advisory instructed people to add the UseRoaming no option to their ssh_config file, with a promise for further...
by David Busby | Oct 29, 2015 | MySQL
Symantec published a blog post yesterday regarding MySQL and the Trojan.Chikdos.A as can be seen here The Symantec post gives detail into the behavior of the Trojan and it’s effects on the Windows system registry, yet gives little detail as to how the required...
by Kortney Runyan | Jul 20, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The Percona Live Data Performance Conference in Amsterdam is just two months away and it’s going to be an incredible event. With a new expanded focus on MySQL, NoSQL, and Data in the Cloud, this conference will be jam-packed with talks from some of the industry’s...
by Tom Diederich | Jul 9, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The conference and tutorial schedule for Percona Live Europe 2015, September 21-23 in Amsterdam, was published this morning and this year’s event will focus on MySQL, NoSQL and Data in the Cloud. Conference sessions, which will follow each morning’s keynote addresses,...
by Roel Van de Paar | Jun 26, 2015 | Security
In a recent article on the Percona blog, I recommended readers to a tool called CamStudio for making technical screen recordings. The blog post was very popular and got 300+ Facebook likes in a short time. Providentially though, a reader commented that the installer...
by Muhammad Irfan | May 27, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Services
The other day I was discussing new features of MySQL 5.7 with a Percona Support customer. After that conversation, I thought it would be a good idea to compile list of important features of MySQL 5.7. The latest MySQL 5.7.6 release candidate (RC) is out and is packed...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 2, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Services
Years ago when I worked for the MySQL Support organization at the original MySQL AB, we spoke about MySQL Support as insurance and focused on a value proposition similar to that of car insurance. For your car to be fully covered, you must purchase car insurance before...
by David Busby | Mar 5, 2015 | MySQL, Security
The CVE-2015-0204 FREAK SSL vulnerability abuses intentionally weak “EXPORT” ciphers which could be used to perform a transparent Man In The Middle attack. (We seem to be continually bombarded with not only SSL vulnerabilities but the need to name...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 3, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Live
Talking with Percona Live attendees last year I heard a couple of common themes. First, people told me that there is a lot of great advanced content at Percona Live but there is not much for people just starting to learn the ropes with MySQL. Second, they would like...
